Material culture books

What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments?...  Read More >>

One scattered family and 200 years of European turmoil told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women...  Read More >>

Translation of: As coisas da casa: cultura material, migraðcäoes e memâorias familiares.  Read More >>

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either...  Read More >>

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Celebrating all things Palestinian!  Read More >>

Emma Hagström Molin uncovers the history of a most peculiar heritage: seventeenth-century plunder in the form of...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what we know about the use of copper by the ancient Egyptians...  Read More >>

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The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion...  Read More >>

Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and...  Read More >>

Cookbooks. Menus. Ingredients. Dishes. Pots. Kitchens. Markets. Museum exhibitions. These objects, representations,...  Read More >>

This is a short cultural history of the fox in the Middle Ages, outlining medieval views on foxes and illustrating...  Read More >>

The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing...  Read More >>

The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing...  Read More >>

Part revisionist history, part treasure hunt, this is the forgotten story of Ethiopia's 'Elgin Marbles' and a young...  Read More >>

"Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book Award Winner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize...  Read More >>

Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur...  Read More >>

While place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments,...  Read More >>

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This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games....  Read More >>

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early...  Read More >>

Examines how the concepts of 'home', 'migration' and 'belonging' can be used to contextualise contemporary art practices...  Read More >>

Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education....  Read More >>